By the way, if some articles are more technical and we put some effort in keeping them up-to-date, we could put them in a separate section and just post in the blog about their existence and updates.
Davide On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 1:14 PM, Davide D'Alto <daltodav...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I personally don't see the problem with dates in URLs. I don't see any >> problem with not having them, either. But I do see a problem with changing >> the URL scheme: potential dead links, SEO nightmare... We would need a damn >> good reason to do it, and I'm not sure those you mentioned are enough... > > +1 > >> In our case, the data works against us as people might think an article is >> outdated by just inspecting the slug and thinking that >> a 3 year-old article might not be relevant anymore. > > Even if you remove it from the URL, you still have the published date > on every article. The user can still see when the article has been > written. > This makes sense because we are talking about blog posts. > > And this argument can also be used in favor of dates: > without the date, you might give the impression that the article is > always up-to-date and I don't think that's realistic. > > I'm not against changing it, but, unless we have some real reasons > related to SEO or similar, > I wouldn't worry too much. Most users are probably more interested to > know when the article has been updated anyway (and not when has been > published). > > Davide > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:24 PM, Yoann Rodiere <yo...@hibernate.org> wrote: >>> The data in the post slug only makes sense for news sites where posts are >> highly associated to a given date. >> >> A lot of our posts are. Release announcements and weekly newsletters in >> particular. >> >> I personally don't see the problem with dates in URLs. I don't see any >> problem with not having them, either. But I do see a problem with changing >> the URL scheme: potential dead links, SEO nightmare... We would need a damn >> good reason to do it, and I'm not sure those you mentioned are enough... >> >> On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 at 12:29 Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.v...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> The data in the post slug only makes sense for news sites where posts are >>> highly associated to a given date. >>> >>> In our case, the data works against us as people might think an article is >>> outdated by just inspecting the slug and thinking that >>> a 3 year-old article might not be relevant anymore. >>> >>> It's better if we use simple slug names that capture the article focus >>> keywords and remove the date altogether. >>> >>> Vlad >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:23 AM, Gunnar Morling <gun...@hibernate.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > While talking to a few bloggers from the Java ecosphere at JavaLand last >>> > week, the question came up why we have the date in the URL of blog posts. >>> > >>> > Arguably, it doesn't add value there (we show the date on the actual >>> posts >>> > themselves), and makes the URLs slightly worse to read. In particular, we >>> > don't allow for browsing posts by year or month (e.g. >>> > http://in.relation.to/2018/), so it's even a bit misleading. Omitting >>> the >>> > date would also make the original idea of the URL fly again ("in relation >>> > to xyz"). >>> > >>> > Anyone with thoughts whether we should change the scheme (keeping >>> existing >>> > ones of course)? >>> > >>> > That all said, I've no idea whether the date in there is good to have or >>> > not in terms of SEO. I suppose it doesn't matter. >>> > >>> > --Gunnar >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > hibernate-dev mailing list >>> > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >>> > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> hibernate-dev mailing list >>> hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev >>> >> -- >> Yoann Rodiere >> yo...@hibernate.org / yrodi...@redhat.com >> Software Engineer >> Hibernate NoORM team >> _______________________________________________ >> hibernate-dev mailing list >> hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
